Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 17 shown for “Inrō with the Noh Play Dōjōji (obverse) and Flowering Cherry Tree (reverse)” — 46 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inrō with the Noh Play Dōjōji (obverse) and Flowering Cherry Tree (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Platter
W. S. Coleman · 1871
Case (Inrō) with Flowering Cherry Tree (obverse); Parrot in Ornamental Swing (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Mask with Red Sun above Pine Trees (obverse); Props for a Noh Play (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30
Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Cranes beneath a Flowering Cherry (obverse); Pheasant beside a Peony (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Case (Inrō) with Design of Pine and Cherry Tree (obverse); Rooster and Hen on a Drum (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Brisé fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES
François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

Sketches of Trees
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 27, 1898

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1972181 matched · 40 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:23 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.